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"Andreas R." <newsgroupsREMOVE@freenet.de> writes:

> When I open a patch (created by simple diff) emacs says it's read-only.

You can force edit it (see the other answers), but I think the best
way to "edit" a patch, is to duplicate the source directory, apply the
patch on one copy, edit this copy of the source files, then invoke
diff  to create a new patch.

cp -r src src-orig
cd src
patch -p1 < ../modifs.patch
emacs *
cd ..
diff -Naur src-orig src > newmodifs.patch


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